PS How to - fade / blend images

[Oz_Beachside]

Anyone have any tips, on how to join two images together, where one photo fades out, while the other fades in? Overlap layers, and fade edge, but not sure of the tools... or effective techniques?

Here is an example, refer to the banner at the top...

http://www.pbase.com/digitalcmh/danielle2

appreciate help, cheers
Oz

[wendellt]

it looks manually done
using the eraser tool at various opacities

if you want to do it aquick way feather the edge 100 pixels then delete overlapping layer

[Oz_Beachside]

Perfect, thanks Wendellt,

I used the select, Feather, adjust radius to suit, and cut. Works a treat, and a nice fast step in processing.

kinda regards,
Oz

[DaveB]

"Erase it"? No, I would NOT do that at all.

Paste one image in as a layer above the other. Add a layer mask to the top layer, then use the gradient tool to put a black->white gradient in the mask: where it's black the lower layer will show through.

If you don't like where the border is, use the gradient tool to define a new merge. That's a bit hard to do if you erase bits of the top layer!
You can touch-up the mask by painting with white or black using your favourite brush if necessary.